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Show 408 COL. C. SWINHOE ON NEW [Nov. 5, LlMACODID^E. T H O S E A RARA, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 9.) Of a uniform clear slaty-grey colour, underside slightly the darker, head pale yellowish grey ; fore wings covered with black atoms, and with a broad blackish discal band from the costa before the apex to the hinder margin one third from the hinder angle, edged with whitish on its inner side; a paler shade on the outside of the band, and the veins near the margin also whitish, making a broad macular marginal band. Hind wings, wings below, body, and legs unmarked. Expanse of wings 1| inch. Hab. Thyetmeyo, October 1887. One fine example received from Mr. Noble. Allied to T. Icesa, but differs from it in the fore wing having a broad blackish discal band with a pale inner border, this band in T. Icesa being very slender, incurved, and without any pale border. PARASA FUMOSA, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 12.) Palpi black, pale chrome-yellow beneath, shaft of antennae black, pectinations reddish brown, head and thorax green ; sides, hinder part of thorax, and abdomen above dark fuliginous black; sides of abdomen chrome-yellow; wings fuliginous black, but much paler than the colour of the abdomen ; central portion of hind wings pale yellowish ; veins of both wings black, rather prominently so ; costal line of fore wings and fringe black, latter interlined at its base with a whitish line. Underside : wings same as above, slightly paler ; face, pectus, and body black, the chrome-yellow on the sides of the abdomen covering most of the under portions, but this does not occur in all the specimens ; legs black, with a reddish tinge. Expanse of wings lT 2 D-inch. Hab. Nilgiri Hills. Three specimens received from Mr. Hampson. An abnormally coloured species of the P. lepida group, unlike any previously described. CANIA PULLIGONIS, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. figs. 7, 8.) Male. Fore wings dark violet-brown covered with brown atoms, outer and hinder borders and base yellowish, an indistinct yellowish suffused spot at the end of the cell, and two brown lines from the hinder margin-the first medial, tbe second at one third from the hinder angle, meeting at the costa, very near to, but just before the apex; the first line nearly straight, the second curved outwardly, corresponding to the margin, and is in point of fact submarginal; antennae pale greyish brown ; head, body, hind wings above and below, and legs yellowish, of the same colour as the border of the fore wings; fore wings below blackish brown, with the veins and outer and hinder margins broadly yellowish. Female. Fore wings reddish brown, with two yellow lines crossing the wing from the hinder margin and meeting at the apex, as in |